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Berkley
January 2007
On Sale: January 2, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0425213692
EAN: 9780425213698
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Mystery Woman Sleuth
The high desert of New Mexico becomes the backdrop for this
debut novel of ancient rituals, restless spirits, a
desperate female Fed, and a crime that could destroy an
entire culture . . . Bureau of Land Management Agent Jamaica Wild has witnessed
the death of a Tanoah Pueblo man trampled to death by
stampeding buffalo. The tribe has declared the incident a
suicide, the FBI concurs, and the body is hurried to
ceremony before the sun can go down on his spirit. But Agent Wild suspects foul play. Haunted by the memory of
the welts on the man's body, and the strange ecstasy in his
eyes, she pursues her own investigation, which leads her
into a labyrinth of clandestine Pueblo religious rites,
peyote cults, and Hispanic and Tiwa witchcraft. But Jamaica
has promised the mother of the victim, the beloved
matriarch of the Santana family, that she will find out
what really happened to her son. Until Anna Santana took
her in long ago, Jamaica was a stray, much like the wary
wolf pup she has just rescued. When the tribal government and the local paper make
allegations that Jamaica caused the stampede, she soon
finds herself banned from the Pueblo, suspended from her
job-and allied with an old, reclusive curandera who induces
trances and casts spells. Ultimately, Jamaica will discover
that the answer to the mystery is contained in another
secret, perhaps the greatest secret regarding Tanoah Pueblo-
one that threatens its future and its past.
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